Our market focus at partner level has led to the development of our specialist mergers team which has successfully brokered many of the deals behind the headlines in the legal press, acting for UK, US and Western European firms (notably in France and Italy).
Our activity in this area has only been made possible by close and long-standing contacts at Management level. Over the years, we have developed exclusive relationships with law firms in a business where trust is paramount – this is a substantive asset.
Our real added value lies in our ability to help shape our clients’ strategic growth mandates. Having dealt with successful and unsuccessful merger strategies, Graham Gill is well placed to know what works, what doesn’t, and why.
We are often invited to attend Board meetings, and to assist in devising firms’ growth strategies. Graham Gill does not pretend to be a Management consultancy, but judging from the input required at Board level, it seems Graham Gill offers a unique insight into differing growth strategies, combined with sound knowledge of firms’ cultures and desires. This is apparently not on offer elsewhere.
The secret of a successful merger lies, in part, in effective integration. We work closely with specialists in this area whom we can recommend.
Graham Gill is experienced in dealing with the spin-out resulting from firm dissolutions as well as team moves of all sizes from a single partner with a couple of assistants to an entire department.
We advise on strategy surrounding fiduciary duties, restrictive covenants and notice periods. We have lined up trusted experts in their fields to anticipate and deal with potential contentious issues.
Taking a whole team can be financially dilutive and represents a big investment for the buying firm. We advise on how best to present the team, its ‘core’ and ‘peripherals’ and how to show that its sum total is more than the individual components.
We negotiate on behalf of all members of the team and deal with individual agendas/ambitions which often evolve and come to light in the course of the process.
Our market intelligence helps identify which firms would prefer teams over and above individuals – a popular view is that it is easier to integrate a team than a collection of disparate lateral hires, both from an individual and a client’s standpoint.
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